From 64af6c545c67972fc492af5a69223f6ac46982b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:53:46 +0000
Subject: Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes
 #964870.

---
 Doc/lib/libsys.tex | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 8d66c76..3b25e5a 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
@@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ It is always available.
       according to the result of nl_langinfo(CODESET), or None if
       the nl_langinfo(CODESET) failed.
 \item On Windows NT+, file names are Unicode natively, so no conversion
-      is performed.
+      is performed. \code{getfilesystemencoding} still returns ``mbcs'',
+      as this is the encoding that applications should use when they
+      explicitly want to convert Unicode strings to byte strings that
+      are equivalent when used as file names.
 \end{itemize}
   \versionadded{2.3}
 \end{funcdesc}
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